Gloves – For general touching of everything and everybody, sometimes necessary to double glove.

Scissors – These mothers cut through anything.

Hand sanitiser – Can be also applied right up the forearms after visiting sticky carpet houses.

Hand moisturiser – Which is needed after washing your hands a hundred times, and stripping your hands of any natural oils.

Paracetamol – For the aches and pains after humping the tenth bigger framed person down five flights of stairs, because no large people get ill on the ground floor.

Base makeup – So I don’t end up looking iller than the people I am seeing after a twelve hour shift.

Chewing gum – To add to the coolness, and make my breath smell better at 3am.

Mints – Just incase the gum hasn’t worked.

Notebook – To be honest most of what is in there is spellings, these medical words are tricky fellas to spell you know.

Lip balm – To stop my lips from cracking and falling off at -5 at a roadside of a vomiting teenager.

Eye measuring thingy – Sorry don’t know the proper name, its also good for seeing small head wounds and key code pads.

Eye drops – By 4am my eyeballs feel like they are going to drop out of my head, and my contacts are pieces of grit scrapping the membrane off my eyes.

Eye spray – It wakes me up for a long 6 hour transfer.

Nursey looking watch – This would help me count breaths and heart beats if only I could see the second hand…. refer to number 1

My personalised stethoscope – This makes me feel doctorish, adds credibility that I might know what I am talking about, but it always helps if you have it turned to the right side, which on occasions I have had a slight panic thinking a person has no heart beat, even though they are sat up breathing and talking to me.

I hope you have found a slight bit of interest in what your local emergency person carries in those big green pockets. Keep safe x

Living life with a chronic illness is definitely not easy. But I do my best to push through all the barriers this illness puts in front of me! In my heart and mind, I believe maintaining a positive outlook on all situations in life will carry us through to much better times! I hope you find the information that I provide both helpful and inspirational!